Expanding on the Clans

Sorry no Dear Diary this week -- was on a family trip through yesterday. Related: shout-out to the Michigan Ski Team -- I was that one guy at Crystal with the kickin' Fischer demos and a way of swinging my arms while carving that looks like I'm shtupping a donkey (thanks, cock-ass Winter Walden instructor in 1991).

Instead, I give you three new columns to the instant classic "Clans" breakdown by MVictors, Lew, and the Hoover Street Rag, referenced atop Tuesday's "Unverified Voracity" column. The new categories:

Standing atop the little garden outcropping at Blimpy Burger and trying to engage the sadly misinformed Cotton Pickers waiting in line in an RR versus Carr debate.

At the Bo Clan guy's house, trying to convince everybody that THIS win over Notre Dame is going to be the start of something special. As RR becomes less defensible late in the year, take an increasing interest in the chili.

"It’s New Years Day just like the day before. Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another years gone by, and I was thinking once again, 'How can I take this losing hand and somehow win?'"

"Change it had to come, we knew it all along. We were liberated from the fall that's all. But the world looks just the same. And history ain't changed 'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war."

When in Ann Arbor, I love tailgating at the golf course. Getting there bright an early ensures a quality spot on the fairway.

When watching at home, it's ususally in front of the TV at home scaring the dog by cheering so loud, with laptop teetering precariously on the edge of the sofa, live blogging, texting "hugs" whenever Michigan scores a TD. (We used to watch games at the alumni bar, but STL didn't have a strong showing so that scared us to watching at home, someone please tell me I'm wrong!).

There will never be a 3rd quarter nap, ever.

As for books, I have a bunch I need to read, but have read Jon Falk's book.

I'm a Lloyd Loyalist (didn't set foot on campus until 2003 though) but I watched games like a member of The Rebellion. Only instead of going to the basement, I conditioned the dogs to retreat to the basement when they heard the ESPN intro music.

Also I normally bonded with RR supporters by discussing how we should come together as a fan base and lynch Bill Martin. I found this idea to transcend the clan civil war normally.

But with a big helping of Bo clan in it. (I wonder if that's the case for a lot of people who either overlapped Bo and Mo or Mo and Lloyd, or were just there when Mo was). Don't really understand all the infighting between those groups. I could see the Rod/pre-Rod stuff, even if it seemed detrimental ("it was all the other guy's fault!!"). But really, to me it was just an evolution of the tree. Other than Harbaugh (went with frankly a better qualified candidate familiar with the staff at the time), and Miles (do the Bo loyalists really want to ignore the sleaze and still call themselves Bo guys?), has there really been that much dissing of the past? Lloyd wasn't some guy Mo brought in...Bo did, and Bo completely supported him. Heck, our current coach was brought in by Mo, not Lloyd. But no one says "CONSPIRACY" about a "Carr-Tel" with Moeller, because all you end up with is a "Moe-Tel".

Absolutely perfect...with one little exception: I'd change that Second Estate away game location from Houghton Lake to Walloon Lake or Lake Charlevoix. Walloon is the home of Michigania, and therefore, it is favored location of a couple of these groups, but the Second Estate in particular.

...after living on State St. for most of my 8 year UM career and then burying myself in my room during away games to LiveBlog and yell at the tv... couldn't describe me better in terms of UM fan clan-ness...

I think the only really deep divide that needs to be healed is Lloyd Loyalists vs The Rebellion/In Rod We Trusted. That's been my experience, anyway. I feel mostly like a Bo, plus Rebellion/IRWT hybrid. My reaction was, "No OMG No Hoke!" until the presser. He won me over emotionally, i.e. I support him all the way, but I still am not convinced he is the answer until I see the product on the field.

Home games: either don't tailgate or do so at Pioneer. Always in my seat in time to see the team warm up.

Away games: in front of my TV or my daughter's (her screen is bigger). Went to Indiana last year and the wife and I are convinced 1 away game a year will be fun.

Book: With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, Eugene Sledge. (Bo/RR hybrid = USMC grit/aggression/innovation.)

No editing occurred on this poster's part; the original post remains in tact at this node. Nor have I posted "euphemisms" of any sort let alone in connection with Coach Hoke. I do take issue with MGoShtoink for an avatar that is unworthy of a Michigan graduate however.

How? I enjoyed entirely positive points until a single statement having nothing whatsoever to do with my alma mater, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, got perceived wrongly by a few who instituted negBangRape. So much for your "little jokes." Yet, with so many URLs at my disposal, frankly Scarlet I don't [strike that and insert "wish I didn't"] give a [derp]. No matter what I am third generation, Go Blue.

It seems only a tenth of the neg-bang came from that "single statement," or more specifically your little political aggravator thrown in at the end. The rest came as you followed up with more politics and name-calling. Judging from the replies in that thread, your point total seems to be about 5 percent people who disagree with your politics, 35 percent people who just want you to keep them to yourself, and 60 percent folks responding to you being an asshole about it.

So....I guess that means 95 percent of your negbang was due to factors under your control. I'll refund you the other 5 percent (about 30 points), so you can stop blaming the board for negBangRape. The rest, if you're interested, you'll have to get back by following the board protocols and being respectful to others.

So I'm part of the 5% of the fan base that understands football. That seems about right.

Since my franchise has folded I want you to know that I am weighing my offers and will air my "decision" on ESPN later this week. I like what I hear from the Rebellion, I can go back to my Lloyd Loyalists group and go back to defending Lloyd's record by including his success against top 10 teams, the SEC, Cooper and then go game by game thru the Tressel years picking out 1 or 2 plays we were screwed out of that flipped the game.

Lot of money in some of those other groups so I'm open to dealership cars, cottages etc...

Where will I take my fan "talents" to? Tune into ESPN on Friday at 9:00